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slipperier

slipperier is the comparative form of slippery.

Meaning of slippery

Adjective

slippery (comparative slipperier or more slippery, superlative slipperiest or most slippery)

  1. Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.
    • Oily substances render things slippery.
    Antonyms:
    sticky
  2. (broadly, figuratively) Evasive; difficult to pin down.
    • a slippery person
  3. (obsolete) Liable to slip; not standing firm.
    • Which when they fall, as being slippery standers, / The love that leaned on them, as slippery too, / Do one pluck down another, and together / Die in the fall.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  4. Unstable; changeable; inconstant.
    • He looking down
      With scorn or pity on the slippery state
      Of kings, will tread upon the neck of fate.1641 (first performance), [John Denham], The Sophy. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1667, →OCLC, (please specify the page)
  5. (obsolete) Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.
    • My wife is slippery? If thou wilt confess –c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Questions about slipperier

What is slipperier the comparative form of?
Slipperier is the comparative form of slippery.

Words near slipperier in the dictionary

  1. slipper spoons
  2. slipper-orchid
  3. slippered
  4. slipperette
  5. slipperettes
  6. slipperier
  7. slipperiest
  8. slipperily
  9. slipperiness
  10. slipperinesses
  11. slippering

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